Words I like - The Limerick Rake
“Now there’s some say I’m foolish, there’s some say I’m wise, Though being fond of the women I think is no crime. Sure the son of King David, he had ten thousand wives, And his wisdom was highly regarded.”
Limerick Rake by Ronnie Drew - songwhip.com/ronnie-dr…
Very much enjoyed reading, and simultaneously listening to, the Rime of the Ancient Mariner
35 minutes well spent
Text at : poets.org/poem/rime…
And on Spotify at : open.spotify.com/show/5TBy…
Finished reading: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge 📚
I often find myself thinking, if not saying out loud, “He’s doing his best, but then so was Liz Truss”
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Not the nicest of thoughts
Microplastics found in every human semen sample tested in study - www.theguardian.com/environme…
Would’ve liked to have been at Stamford Bridge for SoccerAid again - it was a good afternoon out last time
I’m compiling a mental list of results to look up on July 5th
Basildon and Billericay is one of them
Congratulations, USA! 🏏
On days of remembrance, as well as gratitude for the sacrifices, I think of the people I knew who fought in the war, and to some extent my thoughts aren’t all about what they did at that time.
I just miss them.
This is slightly weird
I am a politics geek.
I did politics at university, i listen to various politics podcasts, and i rarely miss Peston or Question Time
I find politics fascinating, vital and often entertaining
But i always get a bit bored with it during election campaigns
Interesting episode about Chanira Bajracharya, who went from being designated as a goddess until puberty to being a financial analyst 🎙️
From a goddess to a graduate Witness History - youtu.be/LvvDZIkDy…
I hadn’t heard of David Fricke before - he’s very Cool, but in a really cool way
Rolling Stone’s David Fricke plus signed Velvets (“banana intact”) - Word In Your Ear - youtu.be/LvvDZIkDy…
i’m sorry to be a dreadful football snob, but for me the highlight of an international friendly is when the Chelsea player goes off uninjured
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I like this, from Austin Kleon’s newsletter:
As the poet Donald Hall wrote in Essays After Eighty, everybody who works with their brains all day needs to lighten up a bit at night: “Before Yeats went to sleep every night he read an American Western. When Eliot was done with poetry and editing, he read a mystery book.”
The work on Salisbury’s new riverside walk has been a nuisance, especially for the wonderful Elai restaurant, but its great that it’s open again now and i think its going to be great
This Blinken chap has got something about him
As we reported earlier, Russia has accused the White House of trying to “eliminate” a political rival in Donald Trump.
The US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, speaking in Prague, was just asked about the comment.
“I would say that’s a classic case of projection,” he says.
BBC News - Donald Trump’s guilty verdict - we answer your questions live - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/live…
Another proposed entry for the next edition of The Meaning of Liff, this one for people of a certain age
Lydiard Tregoze: the amount of time it takes to realise that you’ve got the wring flipping glasses on
Proposed entry for a future edition of The Meaning of Liff
Lockeridge: the time spent staring into space, wondering what that password that you use every day might possibly be.
#TodayILearned that tomatos were thought very poisonous in North America until a chap called Colonel Johnson publicly ate one in 1820
You are there - Colonel Johnson eats a love apple youtu.be/n7_rdLNB6…
This has been one of my favourite reggae songs over the last couple of years
#TodayILearned, via Record Collector magazine, that ‘Niney’ was given that name as a nickname because he lost his thumb in an an accident
Blood and Fire by Niney The Observer songwhip.com/nineytheo…